tiger stripes noun[plural only]3 •Any of various color patterns featuring stripes, usually including a yellow or orange color.To improve visibility the cars were painted up in yellow and black ‘tiger stripes’, making them a recognisable mainstay on Victoria’s rails. — 2023 •A pattern of brown stripes on leaves caused by fungal or other microbial infection.The typical foliar symptoms of the disease may appear on the foliage as tiger stripes, while the berries can show purple spots, cracks and drying up. — 2023 •A series of four parallel depressions on the surface of Enceladus, a moon orbiting Saturn.A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain. — 2023
